2013 recap

[glass_icarus]

Happy 2014, everyone! It's time to square away some of last year's things, I guess. 2013 was another low-fannish-output year for me; I feel like I did very few things that were not either my thesis/some other academic obligation or zouk! But here they are anyway.

writing roundup:
» Free!: weekend routines [Makoto & Haruka, gen]

» Kuroko no Basuke: contrapunctus [Akashi/Midorima, gen]

» Ouran High School Host Club: i knew you were trouble when you walked in [Haruhi/Kyouya/Tamaki, domestic fluff, gen]

» Real City Slash: my heart will rest in someone else's hands [urban polygamy or something like it, gen]

» Red Cliff/A:TLA crossover: balance | @ AO3 [OT4 as benders from A:TLA, gen]

» Tumbling: what bros are for | @ AO3 [Nippori & Ryosuke, the ties that bind, gen]

» book(b)logging:
+ media-logging again
+ runaway booklog
+ recent reads
+ magpie attention-span (also, shinies)
+ return of the semi-coherent lists!
+ stuff & things
+ The Zoya Factor
+ Battle for Bittora

» watchblogging:
+ first movies of 2013! + the last one of 2012
+ media-logging again
+ free! (another one bites the dust) [this is... more a one-liner than an actual watchblog, whoops]

» room escape computer games: gametime musings

» dance rambling: dance dance revolution

It seems that I iconed not at all this year (!?), but I did make a somewhat unorthodox first attempt at fanart, hahaha: Kise the cockroach! xD Oh, KuroBase fandom. I don't play in your sandbox very often, but clearly I will happily continue to be enabled into ridiculous things.

Anyway, short list, but I was also very busy getting my master's! And I got published, and I made my first conference presentation, which was a success! Plus, I spent a lot of time on zouk: performing, traveling, going to classes and workshops and congresses, dancing ALL the socials, volunteering, and generally making new friends with a whole lot of people. So challenges and all, 2013 was a pretty good and productive year. :)

I've seen a few mentions of one-word intentions for the coming year, and I think I want to give it a try! The last few years seem to have been all about finding a direction and/or building for me, so this year I want to focus on something a little different, something that takes a little more effort. This year I want to focus on connection. Of course, I have some concrete goals for this year- get a job, somehow arrange things so I can continue to zouk as much as possible, get back to writing poetry, try to increase my fannish output- but if I don't manage to do all of that, I'd still be happy to get better at connection. ♥

Comments

[inkstone]

I like your 2014 one-word intention. :)

[glass_icarus]

:) I think it'll be interesting!

[littlebutfierce]

I also like your intention! :D

[glass_icarus]

:D ♥

[vi]

Ooh, connection. That makes a lot of sense! I sort of hear my tango teacher...he's always hammering on (and rightly so) about connection.

[goes off to read the fics whose source material I know!]

[glass_icarus]

Hee! I'll have to be careful to NOT cheat and only do this in terms of zouk... xD ♥